Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 29, 1888, Page 9

IN THE ELECTRICAL FIELD. Furnished Rooms With Electric BELL'S PATENT IN AUSTRIA. Itis Cancelled by the Authorities—A Paradox—Pipe Welding—A Narrow Escape—A New Projec gers of the Light—Brevities, Nooms With Electric Power. New York Mail and Exre rooms, with power.” Any one that about the city has seen that ¢ does it mean? Go into one of the build- ings where it is displayed and you will fina & big hoiler and engine in the base- ment, and long belts geared run from floor to floor, turning in each along shuft that runs other belts at- tached to some kind of machiner, 1f you are mind you will perd deal of the power developed in the gine below must be lost by this m of transmission. shanical turn of changes in required to adopt the pow the different rooms, greatly ess of the engine. will learn that not more than 10 to 15 per cent of the original foree of s in the machinery. fore, are apt to in businesses the engine reappe “eome high,” we “must have them,” ne rooms to let their situation makes it impossible to put a steam engine into them or to con- nect them with one by g anges all this n be applied where o wire can set up, and electric motors are small for their effective horse-power motor doesn’t take upmuch more room than a box of so exact, it occupies perhaps five or Now. a one ¢ horse-power motor will run u s fans or turn half a dozen lathes or run o printing and a motor ot of room. dynamos of fifty horse-power or less, kept at a central station. From this.wire rever anybody wants a moto transmitted in this wa, A small w a larger wire is necessar current strong enough to run a six or dynamo would 8 The strongest current that goes over the wire would not hurt a child. but it is not. The force of the s not dependent upon the intensity comes to it over the of the current t wire, hut rather upon its volume. Mare power can be sublet by a com- ) horse power it can s furnish customers to the 400 or 500-horse power. m any magical multiph- due to the - cation of force, that not all of the customers ever w to use the whole of the pow same time. than half the time, and when it de- scends to the force of gravity really te foree in the motor., Jower companie amount of force used, per horse-power permonth. Anybody who has ever u run o steam engine know cannot be furnished by it for any such figure as that. power companies, their ex- counting interest on pl according to the dertuken 10 s that power $2 per hors in other words, they make 50 per cent clear profit. per month; v in a Club House. York Commersial the present outlook it bids fair to be a quo suceesd, s social in character, and will have its reception and drawing- reading-rooms, restaurant, bar and lect all the ordinar club, but in addi cavd-rooms, s of o social on thereto that will make it an anomally among It proposes to raise the standard 1l school” of in- house will be a complete collection of incipal varieties allin work- ing order and r xperimental servi 8 by the mos in the county w emnient elect 1 he given in the lee- hall, which will seat about 500 per- sons, and to these lectures linemen and {rical workmen in all departments The library will con- tain the most complete collection e of literntwre bearing on the subje muscum will hold almost ever ivance ever invented, Throughout the handsomely furnished clyb hounse eyer, novelty and ap| conceivable tus will find a corne new and wonderful uses forced will surprise and astonish even the most prosaic individual, wonders that will be presented to the 11 lead him to bel Aladdin’s pal ‘trie lights of every form and var ate the different rooms, from the steady-burning incande most weird and fantastic sort known to Fountains will glow with fire, doors will casual visitor o will illumi cent to the attachment removed f the billiard tables of their own volition as one enters the billiard rooms, shoes will be bluckened without the interven- tion of human hands, and garment receive a vigorous brushing wi manuel labor, ty will super- sede, ns far as possible, the use of Afri- can drawn und digits. From the most in the house an order sent to the restaurant or bar iting for a servant to a nswer : He only answers Al required. rical appur- and take ther when he bring Besides these useful elect tenances there will be more than one quiet pitfull for the unwa quisitive visitor, for seurcely forego the pl sure of a procti- will be so ar- om® seats of torment, billiard cues may turn to red-hot con- ductors when lifted; drinking cups, be- sides the wine or water within thei Dbrims, may contain in its innacent-look ing handle u paral yzing dose af ele There will be no end of the useful, strange and jocular uses to which the unkrown currént will be put in its own strange b will formally open its new house carly in November. Drawbaugh's “Electrical Paradox, lectrical Roview: The sound record- ing electrical machine of Daniel Draw- baugh is called an “‘electrieal paradox’ b{ the inventor. Tt consists of what Mr. Drawbaugh calls a microphoune and a registering dial. The mllf‘rnphnnl‘. which is extremoly sensitive. is placed in a hollow iron tube which is hermeti- cally sealed, is to he used on land isattached to an iron screw with a very fine thread, hy means of which it is sunk into the earth. An insulated w which may be buriea Or run over tre may necessitat vanic batter which may e connects with and the registe laced miles aws ng dinl, The needle that works from the zero point, Underneath the dial, in the small beam, like those seen on _side-wheel steambx When the sound, either by the medium of « water or air w iffecs the sen microphone, the necdle beneath the d is ut once eused 1o dip, tive pot of mercury and anew current of electricity is started. which moves the needle on the the picket lines of an avmy. i instance. a commanding office mauy ;linl and keep inform d of appr tramp of feet or the sound of voices af- fect the microphone, t instant the effect is shown on the fuce of the dial by the turning of the needle from the zero point. The instant the sound ceases at the microphone, the needle I flies hack to the zero point again. The same local current that mov can be made to ring a bell, or sound alarm gong. For use at sea the aer ment is similar, except that the mi phone will be inclosed in ahermet sealed box of gutta perehu or some material that will withstand the of the water. Itis M put into this by sou small hammer, which will strike a metal plate ench time the microphone is affected. He avgues that on war vessel miles of wire may be end the and ied. To one box containing the microphone hammer is to be attached and adrift astern. The movement of large body within this radius will registered on the dial. Th adius cuntot as yet be aceurately stated. o I's Patent Canceled in A lectrician (London) contains the ng, which indicates that the anti-Bell argument in the controversy as to whether Mr. Bell inven telephone now in comme thronghout the world has been ac- corded a hearing and approval: “The efforts of the telephone com- pany of Austr the Bell patent canceled have at o successful. The result of the de of the Aus- trian ministry of and the Hungarian ministey of agrieulture, in- dustry and trade, dated October 28,1887, seems to be that all those clanses of Bell's patent which refer to the tele- phone ave cgreeled,only those referrving to the multiple telegraphy being allowed to stand. Certain clauses wer canceled becnuse the telephone com- any he ria. 1 use pany of Austriaayus able to prove prior publication, and others were canceled because the compuny proved that they embodied scientific principles which, according to Austrinn law, can not be the proper subject of a patent. The grounds thus stated are identical with those relied on by counsel in the great argument before the supreme court of the United States and espec ly by Mr. Lowrey. one of the counsel against the Bell compauy, T tleman insisted that 3he principal Bell patent was intended at the fiting of the application to relate only to multiple telegraphy by means of musieal note: that the Subsequent stretehing of its terms by the courts.to cover all trans- mission of sounc ng in pitch.loud- ness and guality. Including speech, brought it _into the conflict with the published discoveries in 1861 of Phillip Reis, of Germany, and that the br interpretation which were (in order to shut out tors who suceceded in sending spe driven to give to his famous fifth ¢! resulted in a monopoly to the use of a law of naturs The supreme court will therefore have to pass on the tiousas those which appear to have been passed upon in - Austria, but whether with the sune result remains to be seen. Electricity and Fire Hazard, New York Commercinl Bulletin: Glancing back for fifty years at the ¢ lution in illuminates,from theprimiti candle "down to the modern i i 1t be seen the discovery in this linc w se followed by an inc erties of each new discover vandle gave place to whale oil, that in turn to burning tluid, then kerosene, gas, and finally the electrie light, As the latter far exceeds its predecesso in brilliancy,so also does st ey d them in inherent dangers that must+ be guarded against before it can be handled in safet public favor so rapidly as electricity. Tt is for this veason that the W dreds of workmen w running wires who knew scarcely any- thing of the nature of the force with which they had to de dition of affaivs, it i o employed in not strange that a great deal of botched and dangerous work was allowed to pass muste Naturally, the fire underwriters quick to see how much their inte were imperiled by a force which had at the same time come to be looked upon as a necessity, and rules were made in regard to its use which the public had the risks could was woll enough incip- but these more stringent and multitudinous, until the is not to comply be aceepf in its way and necessary in iency of eleetric lighting; rules have of late become with befor the still whether there going too far? Death by E Hartford (Conn.) Times: We et an incident that oceurred years ago which strengthened the be lief that an electrie shock which de: prived one of his senses was panied by no pain. M G on Albany avenue, tavern. A sev tion areses lectricity. near the K re thunder showe nyon horse and wagon over, and Graves out upon the ground senseless, We saw him a few occurrence, He the face. Restor was sov seiousness, duy he that he The microphone, when it s tops, as the emergency gl egistering dial is surrounded by a circular brass box that it covers, is an- other needle in the form of a walking- vibrations of The dipping puts one end of the steel into o diminu- locul we of the dial and ves to give the alarm. The practical working of the instrument is nded todo v almost entirely with To give an sit in his tent supplicd with a registoring hoof o @ hody of troops from any dircetion dircetion, by a proper distribution of the stakes containing the, hermetically sealed microphones. a dozen of which may be used, as the situ- ation demand The instant the air or earth vibrations caused the the the needle an Drawbaugh's intention to cast xtent of d the 1- | t gen- ne ques- > clectric the advent of sed five 1 for a time, until the public be- came better acquainted with the prop- Thus the Of all'the illuminants, none came into hazard 1s so great. In the great demand the rve- sources of the electric light companics re strained to theiv utmost, and hun- 1. In such a con- were recol- many nccom- Spencer ves was driving a one-horse_wagon came up, a bolt of lightning knocked the threw moments after the almost black in tives were applied, and he was conveyed to his home. It was 1 duys before he came o con- But when he awoke one expressed great surprise to wus at home and in bed, He was astonished to find that he was not driving his horse pn the avenue. He knew nothing of the brilliant flash of lightning: he did not hear the crash of thunder that came instantaneously with it. He felt no shock, and could not dispossess himself of the thought that he was still driving along the road: and when he recovered his full health he said to his mind there was neither time nor incident between the period when he was driving the horse and whipping him up to a faster pace, as he saw the shower coming fast upon him and the moment when he awoke as from a m to consciousness three or four afterward, Nor would the con- demned criminal, lying upon his bed, feel the slightest’ touch, should the electric shock from a powerful battery dush out his life, Caught by Electricity. Chicago Herald: One of the members of the llmlim- force of Boston is o thor- ough electrician, and when off duty is constantly experimenting with captive lighting.” He has his residence wired from attic to cellar, and makes the elec- trie fluid do all that it is capable of thercin, For the past few days,says the Boston Herald,his milk has been stolen, can and all. He made up his mind that the thief must he captured and called to his aid his favorite electrical applia- ances. The milkman had been in the habit of leaving lacteal fluid on a little shelf beside the rear door of the house. In order to reach this door, it was neeessary to pass by the front entrance and go down an alleyway some fifty feet long. Mr. K rician went to work and connected his wires with the shelf, so arranged the circuit that the removal of the can from its receptucle would strike a gong in the diningroom. Yes- terday morning he went home early and took up his position under the gong. Soon he heard the milkman stop and leave the can in its place. He waited patiently for further developments, and just us he was dropping into a doze. zip! whi went the gong over his head. To spring from his chair and dart for the front door was but the work of a second, and he landed on the sidewalk at the alleyway entrance in scason to nab the marauder, who was coming out with the can in his grasp. He did not take him into custody, but it is fair to assume that there wasnot dust enough left in the fellow's cout to cause irrita- tion in a midget’s optic. The fellow will probably not attempt to purloin that ofticer’s milk for some time to come, AN v Electric Minneapoli bune: Probably no well-informed person now doubts the ultimate suceess of electrieity as a mo- tive power, however much experimenta- tion may be requisite before steam can bhe dispensed with. But few people have contemplated the revolution in methods that will follow the success of of electricity as a motor. 1t will not be simply a substitute for steam, but it will ke possible muny things which steam nnot accomplish. For example ac- cording to the Eleetric Review, “there is under way in Baltimore the construc tion of an’ elevated frame work, th n features of which are two narrow ils, upon which shall run a vessel or riridge capable of holding express 1 mafler, newspapers, bagrag mi freight of any Kind. or Above these rails and equi-distant from them is to run a third rail o cop- per condueting eablo, through which the clectricity will pass and propel the vehicle. It 1s stated that the freight cartridge, filled with newspapers in Baltimore, would land them in New York in a litile more than an hour and aquarter. Thus papers going to press at 8 o’clock in the morning would be at New York shortly after 4 o’clock. The electrie carringe” will fly along at great veloeity, and the invention provides for lubrication as the automatic express train speeds upon its way,” Here w have aproject for doing on a large and for long distances by electricity what the pneumatic tube can only do on he idea « comparatively small scale. is entirely feadible upon its face, and we are assured by the Baltimord Sun that the “Electric Dispatech Company™ mean business. The inventions of the past fifty years give ue to the direction in which future advancement will lie; but it requires a v lively excrcise of the constructive imagination to realize even faintly the changes that the next half century will bring about. Slectric Light. electric light has Dangers of the Taken all in all th been far less prolific in danger than was prophesied at the beginning. As there is uo reliable data to be obhtained upon this important point. While the number of fires due to eleetric light wires is approximately known the ratio of such fi to the actual number of buildings equipped with electric light is not ascertainables but the opinion of experts places the percentage of fires from this cause at a ve figure. As our knowledge in this ction ad- vances the hazard will contine until it will be possible to use the electric light with even more safety than gas. Inthe meantime, while the rules of the fire underwriters may seem at times too rigid. it is best after all to err on the safe side. Elee Brevities, A large percentage of the workmen in My, Edison’s luboratory ave engaged in perfecting his system of electric light- 1 and he has strong hopes of ultymate- supplanting both gas for lighting pur- poses and steam for manufacturing with clectricity. In reference to the practi- cal application of electrieity, the modern dynamo machine is the cause of thisnew aof electr The extent of that development may be seen in the fact that in the past seven years there has been established in - the United States alone over 1,000 electrie plants, at a cost of 000,000, and th 1000 plants T nereased the use of incandescent s by at least 1,000,000, Iixperiments on the speed of the elee- trie eurrent prove that if a proper con- ductor could be wound around the globs a signal parting trom it at any point of it would return to the starting point in one-half of a second. Paris is to have 2000,000 electric lights planted in its strects, The Edison Electrie Light company. timore, proposes to light streets, lences or other huildings, and pro- vide motive power for machinery, The cempany intends to place all its wires under ground. H. 8. Foster, superintendent of the Millville-Schuyler Electric Light com- pany, met with a serious accident and a narrow eseape from death, on Friday night, at the engine room of. the com- pany in Millville, N. Y. He caught his hand in a switch hoard and received electricity sufficient euough to furnish a current for thirty-cight are lights, His left arm and hand were burned to the bone, the flesh buvsting in several I and hanging loose from the bone. Aringon hisfittle finger was melted. A company in Buenos Ayres has r cently ordered the matevial for a com- plete” system of telephones from the Societe Generale de Telephones at Paris, Over two thousand subscribers have been obtained, and the company proposes to erect a tower in the river, which will serve as a maritime tele- phone station, Ayres is shallow, so that vessels are obliged to anchor several miles from the by city, lephone ommunication | things, such as liquids and solids. The harbor of Buenos means of a tower near the anchorage will be serviceable. | Electricity is something that can be mensured. and measured, too, more ac- curately than we eéan measure other We can send o cevtain definite pressure through a wire, and we can estimate the quantity far more aceurately than in measuring other things, " bl 14 HONEY FOR THE LADIES. Miss Columbia was the first girl to get o New Jersey s Round skirts, with panels almost entircly plain, are very much the fashion. Among materials for spring hots, straw, it is said, will cut an yimportant figure. Folds and _puffs of met or crepe go even upon such wintry materials as eloth and felt. Young widows have discarded the crimped white bonnet ruche, though elderly ladies still retain it. Pulling weeds s not so unpleasant work, particularly when they grow on a pretty little widow's bonnet, A comely figure in & woman has its charm. But it is the incomely figure that influence the average wife hunter. . Some ladies in New York eity wear bou- quets of natural flowers to evening entertain- ments that cost $100 each. When a Boston girl reads one of Howell's love stories she is generally affected to tears, and little icicles form on hor etieeks. Stylish winter traveling dresses are made of dark Russian blue broadeloth, trimmed with very narrow bands of black fox. Many apoor woman thinks she can do nothing without a husbund, and when she gets one she can do nothing with him. Hare hunting is becoming a popular recrea- tion with Iadies in North Carolina. They sometimes spend whole days in the field. Tn England there is a society conducted by ladies for the promoting of long serv among servants, Valuuble prizes are given. President Tyler's widow is still living at the advanced iage of ninety. He has sons doing u good medical practice in Washing- ton. Girdles of fur ¢ erally popular or tant not likely to become gen shionuble, for the impo reason that they “ruin’a woman's fig- s. Millicent Faweett, widow of the blind postmuster-gencral of England, talks of com- ing to this country to deliver a course of lec- tur New spring gloves will be in gobelins, cop per and leather shadgs, distigured with a mixture of tinsel and heavy Greek em- broidery. Mistress—Did you put the coul on the stove Bridgett New importation--I did_mum, but it will besum toime before it gits hot, fur ther fire's out, A lady book-keeper, who recently married and presented her husband with twins, con plains thut she doesn't like double-cntry housekecping. A new cosmetic has been put on the mar ket under the name of “Auti-chup.” It is probably designed for Seld maids, and to be used on the lips. The newest thing in mourning 18 that the girl whom death bereaves of her accepted lover may wear a black ribbon as a testi- monial of her grief. The Minneapolis Woman's Exchange pays £20,000 0 ) nto the hands of needy women who could not, probubly, without it find a market for their work. The young man who would waste time kissing a young girl's hand would cat th brown paper bug and leave the hot-house graves for some one else. Miss Sallie Kennedy is one of the most suc- cessful real estite agents in Washington. In one week recently she cleared several thous- and dollars in commissions, All sorts of new and pretty things in silver arc introduced for dinner favors this season, and people who dine out a great deal arc making a umque collection, Belva Lockwood is in Was n and goes about the eity riding a tricycle. She is now eulogizing the Mormous, suying they are frugal, honest, brave and moral. Duchesse lace is a favorite trimming for velvet bonnets. It is boxpleated and drawn into a shell both at front and back, between which it wakes a ruffie on the brim! A Philadelphia paper tells its readers that gentlemen, as well as ladjes, “wear gloves to dinner parties, and do not remove them until they reach the table and Wre seated.” A girl who weighs 120 pounds and has £30,000 in her own right, no matter how homely, unattractive or cross-tempered she may be, is worth her weifht in gold. After the dinner—Miss, Goth: elegant menu they had, . Miss th Well, now, I didn't noti ing! What an hica it. You I was 50 busy sizing up the bill of fare. The name of the youngjlady i tional articles i the eastern paps nom de plume of Nellie Blye,is Pink E. Cochranc, and her home is in Pittsburg. Dressy frocks for misses of cashmere or > the cris-cross honeycomb 3 walst and_ slecves, with velvet pointed _yirdie, deep front draper, and skirt edged with 8 six-inch velvet band. Bridal toilets with corsgges slightly pointed frontand back, made of white velvet or satin striped with velvet and combined with heavy corded silk, are the latest expression of elegance, Sleeves who is wi shirring on seem about’ to undergo radical changes. The open bellshaped sleeve does not seem to become very popular, but the close coat sleeve is very lurgely replaced by others much more elaborate. It is safe to that._flowers wili be the spring garniture, as never before were all blossoms and leaves, from rose and rhodo- dendron to maiden hair and eucalyptus, so perfectly imitated as just now. Red continues to be the favorite color in winter dresses. It is mostly used for unde skirts, over which is draped a brown or tunic trimmed with red. - Hats are also vel frequently partly if not entirely red. Very new gowns ave made V-shaped at the back of the neck and Usshaped in frout, with the rest of the alphabet still to hear from— while slecves are slightly longer and by spring will be pereeptible to the naked eye, e is said to be but one pin a day h inhabitant of the United State: if you should happen to put your urm around the waist of u young woman you will find that she has the entire 60,000,000 on her per- son. Mr cat. Mackey's latest fancy is an Angora She has o beautiful male specimen, of tortoise shell and gray, with a tail as thickas a_fashionable boa. A collar, jeweled with diamonds aud sapphives, adorns the animal’s ne A California widow had plans for a £30,000 monument for her late departed, but when the luwyers got through fighting over the es- tate the widow was doing housework at per week for the man who designed the monument, A sleeve much affected by the loveliness that needs the foreign aid of ornament, is a soft puff, of the gown stug, reaching quite to the elbow, with a frill helow of lace or lisse, deep at the outer edge, und next to nothing on the inner, Ruth Perry, a seventeen-year-old schooll girl of Middleton, N. Y., just for alark robbed a farmer's hen-roost the other night, and was sent to the calaboose for a month, She had rich parents, and is now out of limbo under bond. Blue fox is, with Russian sable, one of the most fushionable trimmings of 'the season. Feather boas, colored in fashionable shades of gray or brown, or in their own natural hucs, however, serve the purpose equally well at a much less'cost, A prominent society lady in New York cannot go to sleep without putting her thumb in her mouth. She has tried in vain to ¢ J herself of the habit. She got it in childhood and has kept it in mature years, in spitc of many attempts at a cure. The genuine toboggan suit is short and full like a Highlander's kilt, is worn with full drawers of the same make and leather leg- gns, and warranted to make the Venus de Milo and Goddess of Liberty, rolled into oue, look a figure of fun as well us frolic. Mrs, Paran Stevens,who owns the Victoria hotel, N. Y., was in_her girlhood a waiter girl in a Lowell restaurant while her husband begun life us u stable boy. Sheis worth 5,000,000 and her hotel is headquartcrs for the English aristocracy in this countr, The newest bridesmald’s muffs are quite narrow, only wide enough to hold the tips of one's fingers; but on euch side a long pointed wing is drawn down, showing the lining, and edged with swansdown. The gloved hand and wrist is set off to great advantage by this shape. White and gold is throughout a favorite combination. Young watrons particularly . YHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY JANUARY 20. 1888, ~TWELVE PAGES. 0 affect evening gowns of white broadcloth, flannel or chnddar cloth, heavily enriched with gold—silver, too, sometimes—and the fm'h’y further appears in both hats and bon- neta; Mrs. Mary Wright Sewall and twenty-five other ladies of Indiunapolis have formed a | “Ramabai Circle™ for the purpose of interest- ing people in the education of the widows of Brahmins. Of course thero are no or heathens in Indianapolis who re- quire assistance. It is said that thero are two sisters living near Dolta, Ga,, whose ages are between fifty and sixty-s cars, who have not secn cach other in sixteen years. They live only four miles apart,and are on perfectly friendly terms. No cause whatever is ussigned for the seoming indifference. “The women who have the finest com plexionsddve in fogey countries,” said a con noisseuand the women who have dry and harsh complexions live in a dry, sunny coun ' Dampness scoms to perneate the flosh and keep the skin soft. That is why thero are so many pretty complexions in England. The fashionable boutouniere is either a single rose er a bunch of violets, or mayhap v a8 three buds. At large and co monious dinners, where favors are laid at | every plate, ea ntleman finds at his singlo rose or other flower matehing the cor- sage bouquet at the plate of the lady he takes out. The very new rniture is the ten-end bow.made of watered ribbon with ten-pointed drooping ends dnd five or six upright loops closely strapped. It is worn at one side of the head-gear, and offset by a huge dahlia rosette on the other side, to the making ¢ which in the height of style six yard of rib- bon are necessary. A Buffalo, N. Y., protective committee has collected altogether nearly $10,000 owed poor women. It was mainly an aggregate of small sums due female wage earners, and was the work of the Woman's Educational and In- dustrial uni which defends, with the ad- vice of able lawyers, the rights of weak und friendless members os the sex whenever as- sailed. For young ladies ver; jackets are made of warm cloth, with plas- collar and facings of astrakhan or ‘The small mutf of the sume fur is 1 with a silk cord round the neck. It 150 the cloth cap or beret of the same cloth as the jacket, and trimmed with fur to match and with an aigrette of feather The wife of one of our United States sena tors recently made forty-cight calls in a single afternoon, A genius for figures has found out that if her calls had occupicd four hours she must made twelve calls an e every five minutes. Deducting the time it took her to go from house to house, the average duration of a_call would be three minutes, This is oue of the queer ways of society. A feature of the fashions in fanc; this season is the increasing variet in which watches are carried. T bangle watch, the girdle time-piece, vices in chatelaine watches, and in Paris and London are manufactured umbrellas for la- dies and walking-sticks for gentlemen, with tiny watches on the tops of the handles. Watches are also inscerted in the centre of carriage bags. Long, stately Russian tunics with straight draperies slightly raised at each side to show the hem of the underdress are made of Dev- onshire suitings. There are also exhibited us late imgortations tailor-made costumes of Queen’s Tweed and camel’s hair, with sharp- pointed bodices formed with odd sleeves in carly English style, to avhich are applied straight, full skirts caughit up carclessly at the left side with long slender girdles of silk cord. clegant tight-fitting fasten is in good_taste to w jowelry of ways re is the ew de- - SINGULARITIES, Ahen in Bay City, Mich., strangled to dcath i attempting’ to swallow & live mouse. A blind cat in Oswego, N. Y., prowl: all over town, but always finds its w without assistance. A Washington (Ind.) dentist has found a curiosity in a lower molar tooth which has four distinet roots—a thing, it is said, rarely found. A large swan, with plumage of pure white, but with a black beak and feet, was recently shot on Bush river, near Newberry, N. C. It measured six foet from tip to tip, During a recent stormat_the mouth of the Columbia river in Oregon the waves dashed over the top of the lighthouse, 190 fect ubove the sea level ank extimguished the light. A mule o Xty 3 Aunt Nancy Honaker of 1t came from Virginia over and still earns its 1i before a buggry M. K. Hammond of Summerville. down an old oak tree on his far the found in the heart ablade of a knife, The rings on the tree show that it is at least fifty- eight years old. A young girl at Keokulk, Towa, fell on a bridge, and, being unable to Fisc immediately. her tongue froze to the iron railway, and r mained in that condition until she was re- lensed by a passer-by. A boy in Cochranton, Pa., evades the anti- ferret law in a novel manncr. Hoe catches a rat in abox trap, ties a string aroud its neck, takes the rat to the rabbit's hole while the huter holds the string. On the day of the Juner; Wallage of wbout home six Ga., cut ther day of the late Dr. his favorite do alaree Ivish setter, i about uncasi until th i d, then took a posi nder the hearse and walked to the cem- voleano of Cotopaxi, which e of 120 miles from the analysis to consist jetite and specular present at the rate of fell at mountain, were found by of quartz, feldsp iron ore. 200 gra A Cin mare fell sick, turned her out to pas among a lot of mul While she I feeble to care what was going on, they ate her manc and tale off as thoroughly as 4 bar- ber could have cut them. Near Burwell, Neb,, is a well 160 feet de with pl Some days the well sucks any small article near to' the depths below ; on other days the suction is from the bottom, 80 strong at times that it makes a whistling noise that can be heard fifteen rods awa A performer in a_winter circus in New York is delighting the small boys b picking’ up his trick donkey and carrying it out of the ring at the close of each performanc The animal weighs 600 pounds. The circus man began Tifting it when it was young, and nas kept it up ever since, A colored woman, the wife of Willis Elis of Albany, € gave birth the other day to twin boys! are said to have weizhed the enormous amount of thirty-seven pounds, one turning the scales at twenty pounds & The the other at seventeen, the heaviest babics ver known. Mother and children are doing well, A rattlesnak alf-grown was discovered carrying off key near Waukeenah, 1la., s were st upon it. It struck th animals and both died, but the turkey s released unharmed, which is proof that snakes do not poison their own food. The snake was six fect seven inches long und had fifteen rattles. A farmer 1 ing m_Greene county, Ohi has forty-five hogs. While looking &t the one day he discovered that four had only short tails and that the remaining one had a long fine tail. After trying for some days to find out what had becoine of the miss g tails he finally saw the long-tailed hog going among the others and biting off a piece from the shotr tail of each. George N. Hen Steubenviile, 0., has a cat which he keeps in his store, and which by its clever exploits has attracted much local attentian. The other day Mr. Hen was using u lead pencil in marking tags, laid it down for a moment, when the picked it up in its teeth and, pawing the tas over, began seribbling in in of him, Jennie Gibson, ), living with her p, ., has never scen of six- a handsome girl cnts at Arkwright, ) world by daylight, though enubled by lamplight to sew and read just us ¢l as anybod Up to the uge of four or five years she was believed to bo to tally blind. “The parents noticed that after the lamp was lighted, she gave evidence of sceing, and gradually this powerof sight grew upon her, until the littlo one played with her dolls and toys with artificial light as eagerly us other children by daylight. A ship which arrived at Sun Francisco the other day had on beard a eurious animal. It Las some vharacteristics of the crocodile, but is covered with a_coat of short bristles, or hair, which gives it a most peculiar ar ance. 1t has been domesticated 1o a certain extent, and witl permit the captain or any of the crew to approach it, and receive their carcsses with evident pleasure, but if & e stranger approaches it distends its big jaws and shows fight. The species to which it be longs is unknown to the cre, who called it the “‘wooly crocodile.” 1t is said to be quite a8 much at home in the water as on the land. It moves uctively, and weighs about forty pounds, i - N— IMPIZTIES. An inter down to are cold Lots of men who say they are “‘soldicrs of the Lord” would not pass muster if in- spected on their merits, A witty woman says that when she wears an expensive bonnet to chureh she asks for- giveness, just as for her other sins. The most trying position a truthful an can be in'is to be - preaching the fur ices of a man who died rich and mean. A religious weekly says that about 2,000,- 000 Fins are “grouping in darkness.”,” The missionaries should introduce the electric light among them, smith, of Macon, Milledgeville hus some ver who receive reproof with mo less improvement thun any peop! knew 1t may be difffeult for a vich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, but Lo h satis factinn at present, in’ this inhe blo cli mate, of being able to buy a little coal now and then, Some people talk politics and theology as if they meant to settle wll the questions that have puzzled mankind since Adam's tine, but the next generation will - have somethfg to talk about, just the same. There are times when a man feels t one good sneeze would do him more g than o £10 legacy, but when the sneeze com just as the visiting elder is saying grace at ihe hreakfast table a man does not feel that way. A violent inference: “Little boy." suid an old lady, *is your father a chvistian? he fear the Lord?® — ©1 guess he does,” plicd the little boy. I know w hen he for church las’ Sunday he took his gun with him.” “What Now T lay mo -0, Lord, but your feet says that he over tell me about I can i queried the | SHsau,” responded the youth, wit ¢y of one who feels himself, for on ground, * ML WS a writer of fables who sold his copyright for a bottle of potash.” She was naughty one day and her mother g lady's now who en - you are nau ity ¢ exclaimed Miss Katie, 1 ant to hear any of the God business to-day.” A Washington correspondent says that “‘an attempt b made to compel senators to attend the pr of the chuplain, but has Dbeen a failure.” “Phat doesn’t ook well for the senators, but it doubtless saves the chap lain from a prayer test that would be also a failure, Phe simple Trishwoman's baby had a faint ing gpell and the doctor came, He calied for and was about to sprinkle it the o to vestore it. Tt mother stopped him. “Hould on, docto honld on! 1 sint for you to cure my buby didn’t sind_for you to baptize him. 1 dc want any child of mine baptized by a mid: man.” Little Eddie was provoked into s “darn it in a fit of petulance, when his lit- tle four-year-old sister Fannie v d him, “Don't you know 1t's awful wicked to swear s0, Bddie,” she asked. “Where'll you go to when you die? You won't go where the Lord and God and Christ and Jesus and all them folks o to!™ Southern editors engaged in circulating the andexcd story ought to be ashamed of them- selves, as they have no evidence of its truth- fulness: “Rev. Mr. Martin, of New Orleans, colored, was a burber originally. After he was ordained hus first duty was to baptise a child, Wetting his hands in the water howl, he laid iton the ehild’s head, his mind re® verting to his calling, he began rubbing the head vigorously, and, turning to the aston- ished mother, said: *Shampoo? his recent visit to overed a queer passage in the 1 Psalm as_translanted into the language of the natives, The missionar who made the translation’ found some dinf culty with the first five words, “Ihe Lord is my Shepherd,” because in Alaska there is no domestic sheep, and no shepherds, He thought he had ot over the difliculty untit he heard an Indian read the re, and then ho found he had made it 1 “Tho Lord is a first-class mountain sheep hunter.” b ONAL. The McCormick Theological seminar icugo, has 117 students. Lot less Latin so much as more English is the need of American education from top to bottom. 1t 18 pretty certain that Prof. Patton will succeed Dr. MeCosh as president of Prince- ton university. Profg’. K. Richardson, of Dartmouth col- logee, i at work on the second volume of lus *American Literature, “There are forty-three log school-houses in Towa. This is the number given in the report of the state su ntendent for 18 A Parsee girl named Sorabji has just been graduated fn the University of Bombay in the “first class,” a_distinction won at the sime time by but five men. “Phe oldest living graauate of Yale collogn is Rev. David Lathrop Hu of Buffa Y. He is ninety s old und preached to three generations. The Harvard catalogue for 185758 shows a Prof. G. F. Wright in Alaska «DU « total enrollment of 1,812, distributed as follows: Academic, 1, 1355 law, 2155 and medicine, 263, Tae mcrease over last year is 124 Prof. Webster, the new president of Union college, is distinguished for his scientific ry searches and his colleetion of marine zoolog- ical specimens, gathered by himsclf on the Atlantic coast, is said to be one of the fnest in the country. Some of the Catholie._churches in nati have made tuition freée in their parochial fehools, It is intended to assess the cost of the school on all the members of fiie chureh If the experiment is a success it will likely adopted by all the churches. Nannie Jones, o normul graduate at Fisk un rsity, of the cl of 1886, is to go, under the auspices of the American south, board, to t astern part of Afrviea, ubout 630 mil from Natal. Sheis the first single color woman sent out by the American board. A bill has been introduced in the Ohio legislature to render compulsory instruction in the common schools on the nature of ulco- hol drinks and their effccts upon the human system, and the measure is exciting much discussion in the public prints of that state, urber, jr., a_young conng not nty, and now a student at the Univer, sity of Herlin, has conceived the i of founding in Chicago a great university, to be modeled after that at Heidelberg, He will devote $1,000,000 to the project as an induce- ment to other citizens 10 join him in the movement. Ivis not necessary that the schools should tea vything, but enable the pupil, by wise training, to learnanything he chioo: and as the busis of this ability he must, first of all, know the power and the precise use of lar e. Thereis no danger of over education, but ¢ danger of education without a' foundation. A recent writer in one of the English ma azines diseusses the possibility of over-edu cation, ahd he justly asserts that no cduc tion is worthy the nsme except that which hardens and mvigorates frame, layin the foundation for health ¢ dy and mind-- at the same time forming 1h acter and imparting suflicient knowledge to enable & individual to_cultivate that special taste which nature has given him. - - Old pill boxesare spread overthe land by the thousands after having been emptied by suffering humanity. What a muss of sickening, disgusting medi- cine the poor stomach has to contend with. Too much strong medicin Prickly Ash Bitters is rapidly and surcly taking the place of all this class of drugs, and in curing all _the ills aris- ing from a disordered condition of the liver, kidueys’ stomach and bowels. A largo number ymen of St. Louis have been indicted for failing to comply with the law requiring them licenses 80 that they c the ceremony has been performes A Pole named Hentlistezski recently set tled o few miles from Binghampton. . From the Jagged appearance of his nawne we should ARROW ESCAPE.: — == \ The Expervience of an rngineer Jrom the Keystone State —— How He Escaped from the Clutches ofa Relentiess Enemy Who Was Devold of Either Heart or Consclences \ —_— men fn Omaha to- tly arrived in o beaming sk and inquiring the o, M. Trvin safd: L have been troubled with chronie eatarrh for ten years, during which time | have suffered hors rors which the tongue s inadey 0 Lo POrtray, Taving daving that 1 by severa minent physic atent medis < without stint, d to o me 13 i fact, | u burden, 1rh had extended fato the bronehial at times 1 expectorated blood, hid night Sweats, and was on (he road to consumpbiens “1 had a dull, he nose all stuffed up from a coust it drippin 1 the lead into the throat, sometimes profuse, watery and acrld, at others thick, tenacious muens, pura- or B yes weak watery (o There Wit w rnging in my enrs, 1 one of themn there was o constant dist cOf matter; for the lust nine yours deaf- oustant huwking and coughig o clear the thront: expectorations of offensive matter, ther With seabs from uleers, voice had euth very offensive, smell and nsation of dizziness, with mental whacking couglhi and general debil- Tent, bloody and purrids m and'infly I and fr thei y could do any thing for me, After idnation they told me the drums % wepo xound und that, in their opine wring could be entir restored, atment atonce. The doctor washed my ears out with tome kind of ofl and warm vitter, after which he passed a 'mllm of some kind into my nose, He then diluted my ear: and to n SURFRISE 1 COULD REAI MUCH B “Iwent to his olfice every day, f a fons v v, and now, at the exs Y“"' on of iy S, 1 um entiroly cu , and win trnly thankful for the great blessing of Drs. MeC)y and 1ean unreservedly recoms m to any one troubled with chronie catarrh. No disease,” continued Mr. Irvin, “is Socommon, more deteptive, dangerons and Tess understood, or more unsucéesstully treated by physicians,’ Trvin 18 an exceedingly well informed man, and can be found b the above named place where he will fully corroborate the above, Biealth bestowed upon me by I treatment. Signal Dangers Which Arc Mads Known Betfore Consumption Appears, When catarrh has_existed o the head and upper part of the throat for any length of thne —the putient living in the district where people are subject to catairhal affections-and the dis- ense hus been left unenred, the catarrh invar extends down the wind- ably, sometimes slowl pipe’and into the bronchial tubes, which tubes convey the wir into the different parts of the lungs” The tubes become aflectad from the sweldng and mucus arising from catarrh, and msome instances become phugged up 80 that the air caunot get in ns frecly as it shoukd, Shortness of breath follows, and the patient breatlies with labor and with difliculty. In other cases there §s o sound of cracking and wheezing inside the chest, At this stage of the diseass the breathing §s usnally more rapid than when in health, The patient also has hot flashes over his body. 1in which accompanies this condition 1y of waull character, feit in the chest,” behind the Dbreast bone or under the shoulder blade. The I come and go- last u fow days and then it for several others. e cough that oc- curs in the fiest stages of bronelinl catarrh s dry, t intervals, is hucking i chagacter and v st troublesome i1 the morning on arbsing or ol t night, ard it may bo e irst evide xteudiug i tho ungs. <ht up by the Lucions mus bringing u Sometimes there ar Dby touzh mucous 8o v ntas to Cause vomits ing, Later on the mu that 15 rafsed s found to contain small particles of vellow matter, which indicates that the small tubes in the lungs are now affected. With this thete ar streaks of Dlood mixed with _the mucous, 1n pale, hus fever < ppears., of chuesy substance A lhetween the s es partiel “The rals ous mis often cuses th and exp Tnsome cases sinll nss are spit up, which, when p fingers, emit a bad odor. I oth of i hatd, chalk re’ are spit up. of cheesy or chalky lumps indicates s chief nt work into the Inngs. In some eases citurh will extend into the Inngs ina few w in other cases it may be months or even yeurs betore the disease nttucks the lungs sufliciently to cause jous interfer- ence with the general health, Wien the dieasse has developed £ sich & point the patient s sald to have catareh With hronchlal catarrh the v which differs t purts of the slight inthe in the afternoon and evening, g the duy the patient has i eusation, Which niay Inst froin an Tour to an our the surtuce of the body ing dry and hot. morning, there may Known as night sw “The pulse is usually more rapid than normal, the patient loses flesh and sirength, A x all that ixnecded at thix point o de- ' consumption. Insomeinstances the patient loses sl and strength slowly. The mus-les gradually waste away. Then the pat- fent gradually regains some of his strength, only ty. Such sweats ave fo0d, Whi Ve 08t it o s a4 With oy think he the I . oceur Kidneys. tten becomes wenk, husky and hoarse. 2 15 o burning pain n the tivoat with dihculty in swellowsngs DOCTOR J, GRESAP McCoY, Late of Belloyue Hospitel, New York, AND Dr. Columbus Henry (Late 6 University of Pennsy HAVE OFFICES No. 510 and 511 IN RAMGE LGUTLDING, , Omaha, K ases ace treated uia) Corner Fift. enth aud Harney st all cnrul 1kiitully, Consumpe Dyspepsin, Iéhenmatisii, il NES. Alll(ll-‘\"iAT'I: 0. CURE H CONSULTATION at office or by mull, Oftice hours—4 to 11 a. m., 2to 4 p, m., . Bundsys tuclud IINERVOL 1o the sexes . sp and llty. ompt attentlon, are treated siccessfully b oy undl Henty thiough the maila, wig sssible for those unable 10 make Jbtain successful hospital treatmen lotters answered unless accompanied by ) SLAID . Address ull letters to Drs. McCoy wud Henry take him to be soction of barbed wire fence | paaarGiulListtars to Dis. Mctoy rather than a pole, | V™ e meobutiding QuiANS == e i A i i T e ki N ey